lebateleur | Snowflake Challenge: Challenge #6

Challenge #6

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'll start by reiterating the awesomeness of the three excellent Yuletide gifts I got last year for All Elite Wrestling and the Blake & Avery series.

Once you've finished reading those, here are three more fics to keep you going.

The Laziest Lapdance Ever by crabbybun, All Elite Wresting, Orange Cassidy + Reader, 2432 words, Teen and Up
It's your birthday, and your friends have taken you to see Orange Cassidy: The Laziest Stripper in the World

I am not a big fan of second person POV, or reader inserts, or alternate setting AUs. This fic has all three and it made me a believer. This is just under 2500 words of the most diabolically funny and in character things I have ever seen written. Orange as a stripper?

Would be exactly this.

Winter Flowers (log in to AO3 to see this one), Koori no Mamono no Monogatari, Blood, Ishuca, Wild, Rapunzel; 1682 words, rated G
On a walk through the woods, Ishuca finds the first sign of spring.

This is a delightful post-canon coda featuring the Koori main crew, all perfectly in character and engaged in alternately sweet and hilarious interactions to boot. Anyone who's a fan of (or even just familiar with) the manga will find this delightful.

Illumination by izayoi_no_mikoto; Silver Diamond; Sawa Rakan, Senrou Chigusa; 12,613 words; rated G
Christmas is a holiday of plants, of pine trees and holly and poinsettias and mistletoe. Christmas is a holiday to honor the child of God, who sacrificed himself to save humanity. Christmas is a holiday to celebrate a ray of light being brought to a dark world.

Amato does not celebrate Christmas, but Chigusa thinks that they might celebrate something like it, one day.

Silver Diamond easily makes the top five of my fantasy genre favorites, and the things that make it so wonderful--complex characters, intricate worldbuilding, excellently balanced humor, drama, and slice-of-life, and a deeply fulfilling conclusion--also make it hard to write for, because what is left to add?

This fic finds a way to add over 12,500 words that incorporate the elements that make the original so great. (I was a little hesitant to read given the possible religious perspective , but it makes perfect sense in the context of the fic and didn't diminish my enjoyment at all.) It's a delightful additional chapter in Rakan and Chigusa's story.

これで以上です。